Family fun and safety exhibits include free child safety seat inspection and installation, kids' ID cards, Jesse White Tumbling Team, Rock Academy and touch-a-truck display DOWNERS GROVE, IL - The Illinois Tollway and Illinois State Police District 15 will host the 7th Annual Family Safety Fair on Saturday, September 20, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Tollway's Downers Grove headquarters. The event offers family friendly fun and activities, including free kids' identification cards, as well as child safety seat inspections and installations, to help keep children safe and parents worry-free - every trip, every time. This year's Family Safety Fair coincides with Child...

This Halloween, Naperville police will crack down on drunk drivers with an aggressive Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement effort, and The Naperville Police Department has given a fair warning to all partygoers: keep the party off the road.
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Secretary of State Jesse White and the Illinois Secretary of State's Office joined NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston on Saturday in hosting a child passenger safety seat check to make sure children are properly secured in the appropriate...

Officer Dan Eichholz of the South Elgin Police Department today announced the results of a special grant enforcement campaign coinciding with Labor Day.
"We arrested four impaired motorists, one fugitive, three Suspended drivers, 3 no valid...

[South Elgin, IL]- This Halloween, South Elgin police will crack down on drunk drivers with an aggressive Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement effort, and the South Elgin Police Department has given a fair warning to all partygoers: keep the party...

If you drive a car made in the early 2000s, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants you to see your dealer -- right now.
The federal agency issued a rare alert Monday, warning that owners of vehicles fitted with airbags made by Takata...

Q: I've read in your column that some people eat sunflower seeds to stay awake when they drive. This works, and I have proved it.
I was a researcher at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 20 years, studying drowsy driving, among...

Electric carmaker Tesla will commandeer the Hawthorne airport tonight, and much of the Internet's attention, to reveal ... something.
Exactly what, neither the company nor its media-savvy chief Elon Musk is saying, other than it will involve the letter D...

A former Des Plaines police commander who padded DUI arrest records so the department could get federal grant money was sentenced today to six months in prison.
Timothy Veit, 57, apologized in Chicago's Dirksen U.S. Courthouse for his role in...

The number of people killed in crashes caused by a faulty ignition switch in older General Motors cars now stands at 19, almost 50% higher than the automaker’s previous estimate, and could rise to well over 100.
That is according to the first report from...

Installing child safety seats in cars can be a frustrating experience. Finding out that nine out of ten child safety seats are not installed correctly, according to the Illinois State Police, is downright frightening.
Car accidents are the second leading...

Buckling children in and age- and size-appropriate car seats, booster seats and seat belts can reduce the risk of serious and fatal injuries by anywhere from 45 percent for grade school children to 71 percent for infants, according to the Centers for...

WASHINGTON — Federal auto safety regulators came under double-barrel attack on Capitol Hill Tuesday, as a House report and members at a Senate hearing excoriated them for failing for years to grasp the severity of an ignition switch defect in General...

DETROIT — General Motors, the largest U.S. automaker, will introduce a Cadillac model in two years that can be driven on the highway without the driver holding the steering wheel or putting a foot on a pedal.
The 2017 Cadillac model will feature...

West Chicago, Illinois: August 12, 2014 - The West Chicago Police Department today announced its late-night plans for the 2014 Labor Day "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" Impaired Driving Crackdown focusing on the deadliest time of day for...

Posted By Marisa Schrieber, NLFPD Public Education Coordinator, Community Contributor

New Lenox, IL - New Lenox Fire Protection District is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $1,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation. This grant was awarded to help increase the use of booster seats in New Lenox. This grant is...